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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt

 wrote:

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> On 08/12/2011 09:39 AM, Phil Hézaine wrote:

>> May be a consensus about the numbering of channels would be wise at

>> least for Jack applications.

>> Either Channel 0 = Channel 1

>>     or Channel 1 = Channel 1 (like in JACK Keyboard. I used it for testing)

>> But it's an old story and all musicians are used to use this gymnastics.

>> Thanks again for this promising free software.

>

> I'm a computer scientist, so of course I start counting at 0 :D There's no doubt about it.. If someone else does it differently they are dead wrong ;D And by implication this means that I'm right. Ah, feels good to be right..

>

> This is what Dijkstra has to say about it:

>

> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

>

Dijkstra Considered Harmful
My hardware MIDI controller doesn't have a channel 0, but it goes up to 16!
Admit it: you never start counting from 0 in real life, only when

dealing with computers.  Nobody cares what bits go out on the wire...

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